CVE-2026-98240

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ip_tunnel: initialize options_len before referencing options

The following command triggers a kernel panic:

ip link add d0 type dummy; ip link set d0 up ip route add 10.30.0.0/16 encap ip id 300 geneve_opts 4660:66:11223344 dev d0

memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 4 byte write of buffer size 0 kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:1044! … ip_tun_parse_opts.part.0.cold+0x10/0x10 ip_tun_build_state+0x116/0x2a0

On kernels built with GCC 15+ and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, the fortified memcpy() got 0 sized destination with request of 4 bytes length:

static int ip_tun_parse_opts_geneve(…) { … attr = tb[LWTUNNEL_IP_OPT_GENEVE_DATA]; data_len = nla_len(attr); /* == 4 */

  struct geneve_opt *opt = ip_tunnel_info_opts(info) + opts_len;
  memcpy(opt->opt_data, nla_data(attr), data_len);
  /*     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 0 since options_len is assigned afterwards */

Fixed by initializing the counter before the options are referenced. Matching what tunnel_key_opts_set() already does.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f6a6beb01c068fcd5274eabf22c260039749fea
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/455ebeadf714f51e1dbbd6a022c74c9215b1cd76
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9907325257b4b382f26aafd5d9a8d47915907dd5